C 1s Peak of Adventitious Carbon Aligns to the Vacuum Level: Dire Consequences for Material's Bonding Assignment by Photoelectron Spectroscopy

The C 1s signal from ubiquitous carbon contamination on samples forming during air exposure, so called adventitious carbon (AdC) layers, is the most common binding energy (BE) reference in X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies. We demonstrate here, by using a series of transition‐metal nitride fi...

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Published in:	Chemphyschem Vol. 18; no. 12; pp. 1507 - 1512
Main Authors:	Greczynski, Grzegorz, Hultman, Lars
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Germany John Wiley and Sons Inc 20.06.2017
Subjects:	analytical methods binding energy Communication Communications surface analysis surface chemistry X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy surface analysis surface chemistry analytical methods binding energy X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
ISSN:	1439-4235, 1439-7641
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